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Excavation Opportunities 1995

Prize Find: Priestly Blessing of a Voyage

Recovery of a harbor scene at Dor

By Ephraim Stern

Part of a Persian period pit produced a perplexing prize find. It was discovered at the end of our 13th season (1993) at Tel Dor.a Persian period pits (fifth-fourth century B.C.E.) are ubiquitous in Palestinian tells. Why, just at this time, it was so popular to dig pits is not clear. But they are everywhere. They were 052used to store grain and other agricultural products, and as a final resting place for broken and old cult objects like figurines (a favissa). What is clear is that they often disturb the stratigraphy of the site, for they extend down […]

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Footnotes

1.

See Ephraim Stern, “The Many Masters of Dor,” BAR 19:01; “The Many Masters of Dor, Part 2: How Bad Was Ahab?” BAR 19:02; and “The Many Masters of Dor, Part 3: The Persistence of Phoenician Culture,” BAR 19:03.

2.

See Trude Dothan and Seymour Gitin, “Ekron of the Philistines,” BAR 16:01.

Endnotes

1.

This ostracon is being studied by Hebrew University Professor Joseph Naveh.

2.

The bone was identified for us and has been studied by Israel Antiquities Authority paleo-zoologist Liora K. Horowitz.

3.

J.M. Webb, “The Incised Scapulae,” in Excavations at Kition V. Part II, ed. V. Karageorghis (Nicosia: 1985), pp. 326–7.

4.

See Avraham Negev, “Excavation at Avdat,” Qadmoniot 10 (1977), p. 29 and “Nabatean Cities in the Negev,” Ariel, 62–63 (1988), p. 126 (Hebrew).

5.

R.D. Barnett, A Catalogue of the Nimrud Ivories in the British Museum (London: 1957), pp. 3, 8, 19.

6.

E. Gjerstad, “Decorated Metal Bowls from Cyprus,” Opus Arch vol. IV (1946): 1–18; G. Markoe, Phoenician Bronze and Silver Bowls from Cyprus and the Mediterranean (Berkeley: 1984).

7.

D. Barag, “Phoenician Stone Vessels from the Eighth-Seventh Centuries B.C.E.,” in Eretz Israel (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1985), 215–232, especially fig. 11 on p. 224 (Hebrew).